Friday, July 18, 2014

FO Friday: Twist of Triumph

Let me just take a moment to say: Hurrah Germany! They weren't my first choice for World Cup champions, but it is the land where at least two great things were born: Wollmeise yarn, and me! I kid, I kid. But did you know, both Wollmeise and I come from the same town? Pfaffenhofen. Of course, the yarn store wasn't there when I was there, and being three years old when we left, I probably wouldn't have had much use for yarn, but still. Just one more reason to want to visit my birthplace again.

So anyway, I was rooting for Germany in Sunday's match. And I enjoyed it all the more because I wasn't having to rush to finish my Twist of Death. Despite losing two days of knitting to lack of yarn, I was able to finish up the sleeves on Friday. The finishing was a team effort, which means that my mother was kind enough to sew the sleeves in for me. What can I say, she's awesome like that. I did complete the weaving in of the ends, the blocking, and the modeling, though. Of course, Mom did take the photos. So, um, still a team effort. We took the photos pre-blocking to make sure that I could post them before the end of the tournament, so there's not as much rolling at the edges now.

I love how many ways there are to wear this:

Style #1: Open front

Style #2: Wrapped front

Style #3: Open back

Speaking of team efforts, I'm going to give a shoutout to one of Mom's FOs this Friday as well, because I played a vital role in it. Behold, from my handspun yarn:

I had totally forgotten that the yarn I spun ended up being fingering weight, so she had plenty of yarn for this shawl. There was a little bit of unevenness between the hanks, but nothing you can really notice. And I love the way the colors worked up:

I'm not doing the Tour de Fleece this year, and I missed out on a recent wheel spinning course at an LYS last week, but this definitely makes me want to spin some more.